Bogoro, l’œuvre-enquête de Franck Leibovici et Julien Seroussi #3 Finding out the facts
Investigation by Virginie Bobin
At the crossroads between art, poetry and international justice, Switch (on Paper) is publishing a text that takes the form of an investigation, in several instalments, of a project conducted since 2014 by Franck Leibovici and Julien Seroussi at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The project centred on the Katanga/Ngudjolo trial, named after the two militiamen accused of crimes against humanity, allegedly committed in 2003 in the village of Bogoro, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This third text looks at the question of facts – from the very different angles of legal experts and researchers in the field of social sciences – and the alternative method of interpretation proposed by the book bogoro, published in 2016 by Questions Théoriques.
bogoro, Questions théoriques, Paris, 2016.
bogoro, op.cit., p. 351.
Source: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.fr/&httpsredir=1&article=2492&context=facpubs (Consulted in October 2018. Author’s translation.)
Charles Goodwin, “Professional Vision” American Anthropologist 96 (3), p. 606-633, 1994 (Author’s translation).
Julien Seroussi, “S’emparer des faits. Un sociologue à la Cour pénale internationale”, Grief, op.cit, p. 134-143.
Julien Seroussi, “S’emparer des faits. Un sociologue à la Cour pénale internationale”, Grief, op.cit, p. 134-143.
The article was published in a dossier coordinated by Julien Seroussi on the meetings between lawyers and social scientists in the context of international justice, in Grief n°3, Dalloz/EHESS, Paris, 2016, p. 152-162.
op.cit, p. 159.
op.cit, p. 156.
The neutrality of the museum will, once again, be considered very differently depending on the “professional view”, again. For an art historian, discussing events that have taken place in the DRC, particularly in this museum, inevitably echoes the increasingly heated debates about the critical conditions under which part of the collections were acquired in former colonial territories, the collection of historical speeches that establish the setting for the objects presented and the thorny question of restitution.
During the round table, Marianne Saracco pointed out the subjective nature of the selection of extracts read by Leibovici and Seroussi, that might lead to believe that the entire trial was grotesque as they focused solely on its weaknesses.
One of the first public renderings of the investigation undertaken by Franck Leibovici and Julien Seroussi of the Katanga/Ngudjolo case materials is the book bogoro1, named after the small village of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) targeted by a violent attack in 2003, which gave rise to the court case. The book stems from…
